Patents Examined by John J Lee
  • Patent number: 11902910
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for power control of multiple uplink transmissions. A method for operating a user equipment includes receiving information for first parameters and for second parameters, determining a first power for a first channel with a first spatial setting to a first reception point of a serving cell using the first parameters, and determining a second power for a second channel with a second spatial setting to a second reception point of the serving cell using the second parameters. The method further includes transmitting, to the first reception point of the serving cell, the first channel using the first power and the first spatial setting; and transmitting, to the second reception point of the serving cell, the second channel using the second power and the second spatial setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Carmela Cozzo, Aristides Papasakellariou
  • Patent number: 11902906
    Abstract: A method by which a first device performs wireless communication, and a device for supporting same are provided. The method can comprise the steps of: acquiring synchronization related to sidelink (SL) communication from a synchronization reference; receiving information related to a first power control parameter; generating a sidelink synchronization signal block (S-SSB) including a sidelink primary synchronization signal (S-PSS), a sidelink secondary synchronization signal (S-SSS), and a physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH); determining a first transmission power value on the basis of a downlink (DL) path loss between a base station and the first device and the information related to the first power control parameter; and transmitting the S-SSB to a second device on the basis of the first transmission power value and the synchronization related to the SL communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 11902905
    Abstract: A base station for wireless communications transmits at least one radio resource control message comprising configuration parameters of a cell. The configuration parameters comprising: a cell index identifying the cell; and an index identifying downlink subcarriers as a pathloss reference signal of the cell. The base station receives, via uplink subcarriers, at least one uplink signal employing an uplink transmission power. The uplink transmission power is determined for the at least one uplink signal based on measurements of the downlink subcarriers identified by the index as a pathloss reference signal of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 11902915
    Abstract: This present disclosure discloses example communication methods and communications apparatuses. One example communication method includes a terminal device determining a first offset of a first power class and a second offset of the first power class when a power class of the terminal device is the first power class. A compensation amount of the first power class is determined based on the first offset and the second offset. A determination as to whether to camp on a first cell is made based on the second offset and the compensation amount of the first power class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haifeng Yu, Yiling Wu, Yuchen Wang, Zhenyu Li, Chenwan Li
  • Patent number: 11895584
    Abstract: Base stations and wireless devices may use cross-slot scheduling for each of a plurality of cells. Base stations and wireless devices may communicate regarding the cross-slot scheduling, including for example, one or more indications associated with cross-slot scheduling for one or more cells. A wireless device may determine cross-slot scheduling for one or more transmissions associated with the one or more cells. The wireless device may save power by switching to a power saving mode for at least one cell during one or more slots, based on the cross-slot scheduling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Dinan, Yunjung Yi, Ali Cirik, Alireza Babaei, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Kyungmin Park, Kai Xu
  • Patent number: 11886998
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating an output sequence from an input sequence. One of the methods includes, at each of a plurality of generation time steps: generating a combined sequence for the generation time step that includes the input sequence followed by the output tokens that have already been generated as of the generation time step; processing the combined sequence using a self-attention decoder neural network to generate a time step output that defines a score distribution over a set of possible output tokens; and selecting, using the time step output, an output token from the set of possible output tokens as the next output token in the output sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Noam M. Shazeer, Lukasz Mieczyslaw Kaiser, Etienne Pot, Mohammad Saleh, Ben Goodrich, Peter J. Liu, Ryan Sepassi
  • Patent number: 11882528
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure relates to mobile communication technology, and in particular, to a method for uplink transmission and apparatus thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventors: Sa Zhang, Yi Wang, Jingxing Fu, Feifei Sun
  • Patent number: 11876599
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method for a solar cell array is provided, the method includes emitting a communication message from the solar cell array by reverse biasing the solar cell array so as to cause at least a portion of the solar array to emit a detectable amount of radiation corresponding to the communication message. In one embodiment a solar cell array circuit is provided including a solar string comprising a plurality of solar cells coupled together, a charge storage device coupled to a power bus, and a bidirectional boost-buck converter having a first and second pair of MOSFETs connected in series between positive and negative rails of the power bus with an inductor coupled from between the first and second paired MOSFETs to a charging output of the solar string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Nader Michael Lotfy, Eric James Aagaard
  • Patent number: 11876611
    Abstract: Described herein is a system for drone defense, comprising at least one jammer and at least one radio detector, wherein the jammer is set up to send an interference signal over a frequency range, and the radio detector is set up to detect a radio control signal of a drone, the frequency range of the interference signal comprises a carrier frequency of the radio control signal or a GPS signal, wherein the jammer is configured to temporarily interrupt the interference signal and the radio detector is configured to receive the interference signal, detect the interruptions and detect the radio control signal of the drone within the interruptions of the interference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventor: Thorsten Chmielus
  • Patent number: 11871364
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an apparatus of a user equipment (UE) may transmit a power headroom (PHR) parameter. The PHR parameter may be based at least in part on a beam being associated with a grating lobe and a main lobe. A power of the grating lobe may be within a power threshold of a power of the main lobe. The apparatus may perform a communication using the beam based at least in part on the PHR parameter. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11856530
    Abstract: In the present disclosure, a UE generates a power headroom report, and transmits the power headroom report to a network. The power headroom report includes a configured transmit power (CTP) field for a serving cell based on a CTP value for the serving cell being not equal to a last reported CTP value for the serving cell. The power headroom report includes no CTP field for the serving cell based on the CTP value for the serving cell being equal to the last reported CTP value for the serving cell. The power headroom report may include first information on whether the CTP field for the serving cell exists after a power headroom filed for the serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sunyoung Lee, Seungjune Yi
  • Patent number: 11848895
    Abstract: The present invention provides a resource management method and system thereof. The resource management method includes: judging whether the variation degree of work state of a communication system will result in the change of resource management information of the communication system or not, if so, then the resource management information is re-collected, wherein the resource management information includes the state, the interference state among links and service stream information relating to each node in the communication system; and determining the resource allocation strategy of the communication system according to the resource management information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Xin Guo
  • Patent number: 11849406
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic device and method for wireless communication, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit configured to: determine the first power limiting region of the first primary user of a main system, wherein the first power limiting region is a three-dimensional space defined by the directional beams of the first primary user to the third primary user of the main system; and determine one or more secondary users in the first power limiting regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youping Zhao, Cong Lu, Chen Sun, Xin Guo
  • Patent number: 11849367
    Abstract: A method for pooling resources in a mobile network includes allocating baseband resources between a plurality of virtual baseband engines supporting the mobile network, determining a change in a usage of the mobile network, and re-allocating, in response to the change in the usage of the mobile network, the baseband resources between the plurality of virtual baseband engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: JOHN MEZZALINGUA ASSOCIATES, LLC
    Inventors: Todd Edward Landry, Massimo Notargiacomo, Roberto Orlandini, Giovanni Chiurco
  • Patent number: 11838873
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for altitude-aware energy saving. The method may include receiving, from a network element, information including a coupling loss change or a reduced transmit power command. The method may also include controlling an uplink transmission based on the received information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Gilsoo Lee, Rapeepat Ratasuk, Tzu-Chung Hsieh, Shahzada Basharat Rasool, Athul Prasad
  • Patent number: 11832193
    Abstract: Disclosed are power control method and device, and method and device for determining target receiving power. The power control method includes: space domain resource information of a transmission is received; a power control parameter of the transmission is determined according to the space domain resource information of the transmission and an association between space domain resource information and power control parameter, where a number of at least one parameter of the power control parameter of the transmission is greater than 1; and a transmit power of the transmission is determined according to the power control parameter of the transmission. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the power control parameter is configured for one transmission, a number of at least one parameter of the configured power control parameter is greater than 1, and a beam scenario or a panel scenario or a multi-TRP scenario is supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Ke Yao, Bo Gao, Zhaohua Lu, Shujuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11820536
    Abstract: A projection unit (12) of an interference power estimation device (1) projects an orbit of a satellite onto a map representing a ground surface. A range acquisition unit (13) determines a plurality of ranges on the map so that the projected orbit is included in the ranges. An altitude calculation unit (14) calculates an altitude of the orbit of the satellite in each of the ranges. A range interference calculation unit (16) calculates, for each of the ranges, an interference power between the satellite at a position determined by a latitude and a longitude of the range and the altitude calculated for the range and a radio station installed on the ground surface. An estimation result calculation unit (17) selects, as an estimation result, a maximum value among the interference powers calculated for each of the ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tsuboi, Yutaka Imaizumi, Kazuto Goto, Kota Ito, Naoki Kita, Hiroyuki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11825425
    Abstract: The method includes: A first terminal device determines a transmit power of a data channel, wherein the transmit power of the data channel comprise a first data channel part and a transmit power of a second data channel part, where the first data channel part is a part of the data channel that has a same time domain resource with a control channel, and the second data channel part is another part of the data channel that has a different time domain resource with the control channel. The first terminal device sends data in the first data channel part at the transmit power of the first data channel part, and sends data in the second data channel part at the transmit power of the second data channel part. This application may be applied to internet of vehicles, for example, V2X, LTE-V, and V2V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenting Guo, Zhengzheng Xiang, Lei Lu
  • Patent number: 11818664
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for UE power control for multiple uplink carriers. One apparatus includes a processor and a transceiver that performs a random-access procedure, wherein performing the random-access procedure includes transmitting a PUSCH Msg3. The processor identifies a number of configured CL-PC process for an UL channel or signal and calculates a transmit power for the PUSCH Msg3 using a CL-PC process with index zero in response to the apparatus being in RRC_CONNECTED state and the number of configured CL-PC processes for the UL channel or signal being more than one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Ebrahim MolavianJazi, Joachim Loehr, Hyejung Jung, Vijay Nangia, Prateek Basu Mallick
  • Patent number: 11818669
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, apparatuses and computer program products for power control. A method implemented at a first terminal device comprises determining one or more power control parameters for a transmission from a second terminal device to the first terminal device; transmitting the one or more power control parameters to the second terminal device; and receiving the transmission from the second terminal device, the transmission being controlled based on the one or more power control parameters. With some proposed embodiments, transmission between the first device and the second device may be performed more efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gang Wang